Stations in six states selling for under $1; West Virginia, Mon County see it under $2
With the nation’s inventory of crude oil at a high and demand for gasoline at a low point because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, pump prices in the Morgantown area and the rest of north-central West Virginia are expected to remain low for the time being, according to GasBuddy, a travel and navigation app focused on gas savings.
GasBuddy said the cheapest gas in the Morgantown area can be found at the Pilot gas station on Goshen Road, where prices were $1.79 a gallon Monday. By comparison, the Sheetz at the intersection of Chaplin Road and Monongahela Boulevard and at Kroger in Suncrest Towne Centre both had pump prices of $1.83 a gallon. That same price could be found at the Star City Sheetz.
GasBuddy tracks the prices at more than 150,000 gas stations in the United States and Canada.
Sam’s Club in Granville was quoting a pump price of $1.73 a gallon.
Pump prices in Preston County were at $1.95 a gallon at the BFS station on State Route 26, near the Interstate 68 interchange in Bruceton Mills and at The BP on East Main and Pleasant streets in Kingwood.
In Fairmont, pump prices were $1.74 a gallon at the Marathon gas station at 109 Main St. The cheapest gasoline in the state could be found in Wheeling, where a Marathon gas station on Zane and Huron streets had it for $1.34 a gallon, Gas Buddy said. Overall, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in West Virginia is $1.75 a gallon.
The cheapest gas prices in the country are in Wisconsin, where the average price is $1.20.9 a gallon. By comparison, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in California was $2.79.7 a gallon.
GasBuddy also said six states — Wisconsin, Kentucky, Michigan, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Illinois — have the lowest prices in more than a decade. The app also indicated more than a dozen states have stations selling gasoline for under $1 a gallon. None are in West Virginia.
“To have thought at the beginning of the year we’d be in the place where we are, would truly have been impossible, new and multi-year records continue to be written when it comes to gasoline prices,” Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis, said in a statement.
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